In addition to this blog you can interact with or connect with me via Linkedin, Twitter, or Facebook. This is a fair amount of baggage to juggle along with email on yahoo, MSN, gmail, .mac, school alumni accounts and of course my work email.
But the reality is that blogs and those first three services allow me to be much more productive than the email based ones. I'm getting to a point at MS where I get so many emails a day (around 500 or so) that it's a virtual certainly that some will slip through the cracks.
But I suspect even these tools will become too much and I'll standardize on just one. I use twitter infrequently (keeping tabs on people when socializing and conferences for the most part) and while I'm still beholden to Linkedin I must say that Facebook is coming on strong. I'll make a confession here too, I've been on Facebook since 2005 or so but felt like a dirty old man as a 35 year old college student while at Institute of Design so now that they've opened the floodgates on membership I don't feel so bad. I suspect as my time get's more and more constrained that I'll rely on Facebook more and more.
So keep in touch. Find me on Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook.
In my case, I was active with all these websties when I heard about the concept. And there are so many things coming up every day & its difficult to keep track of things. Techcrunch makes me register in all most all the startups they blog to check the interaction and functionality. Am active only in blogging. very rare that I login into hi5 or orkut or facebook or linkedin these days.
Posted by: Rajesh Anandakrishnan | August 14, 2007 at 03:22 AM
In data warehousing we learned an important distinction: recency and frequency. There are temporal dimensions to interactions. LinkedIn is a long-term connection mechanism, not a daily one.
Posted by: Paula Thornton | August 15, 2007 at 06:37 PM
From those three, LinkedIn stands out for me. It's specialized focus on employment/professional relations makes it invaluable. I've been through friendster, orkut, and myspace, and find facebook's interaction impenetrable (what am I missing here?). I also like keeping the social and the professional separate, and facebook seems to merge the two.
Posted by: Frank Gruger | August 16, 2007 at 03:53 PM